LETTER: Heroin can change life for the worse

Saturday

Mar 15, 2014 at 5:49 PMMar 15, 2014 at 5:50 PM

Heroin has forever changed my life. I lost my home, job, car, and almost my life. Last year I overdosed, and my dad found me and rushed me to the hospital. Five days later I woke up, and was in the ICU in Rhode Island Hospital.

Heroin has forever changed my life. I lost my home, job, car, and almost my life. Last year I overdosed, and my dad found me and rushed me to the hospital. Five days later I woke up, and was in the ICU in Rhode Island Hospital.

I had a major surgery called a fasciotomy. Most of the muscle in my right leg is gone. Now, over a year later, I still can’t feel or move my foot. Every day is a constant reminder of how heroin almost took my life.

So many people have died in the past few months and I am finally realizing how lucky I truly am to be alive. Please, if you are using this horrible drug, don’t keep it quiet.

I beg you to seek help before you end up permanently disabled or dead. There is hope.